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Latest Version of iPodLinux Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the whine-not dept.

Demolition writes "The latest release of the iPod-Linux Installer has been reviewed on Accelerate Your Mac!, a popular Mac performance/modification site. As mentioned in previous Slashdot articles, the iPodLinux Project is an open source venture devoted to porting Linux to Apple's iPod. In a nutshell, the reviewer finds that the iPodLinux Project has progressed a long way from its early proof-of-concept days."

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  1. Re:This is quite exciting. by nihilogos · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It would be possible to get third-party support for formats that are not officially supported, such as RealMedia or Microsoft DRM-protected audio files

    I would guess that there is purpose built hardware to do the mp3 and aac decoding on an iPod, and that software decoding of other formats would be very slow, perhaps useless.

    But I don't actually know.

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